Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

W. A. STATTMANN. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLIOATIQN FILED JULY 11,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER A. STATTMANN, OF TOLUOA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- FIFTHS TO RANDOLPH C. OURRY AND JOSEPHINE S. EVANS, OF TOLUCA, AND THOMAS E. DILLEY, OF LOS ANGELES'OALIFORNIA.

NoN-REFILLABLE BoTTu'E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 779,380, dated January 3, 1905.

. Application filed July 11, 1904:l Serial No. 216,115.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER A. STATTMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toluca, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in N on-Rellable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a stopper for a bottle that cannot be removed from the neck thereof except by breaking the bottle or destroying the stopper; and the object of my invention is to prevent the reuse of a bottle. I accomplish this object by means of the'device described herein and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a central vertical section of the neck of a bottle with my improved stopper therein. Fig. 2 is a detailed view of my attachment for a cork, slightly modified.

In the drawings, A represents the neck of the bottle, and B represents my device for attachment to the cork. This attachment consists of the body portion O, cylindrical in form, carrying in the interior thereof a spiral spring D, the lower end of the spring being secured to a rivet secured to the cylinder. On the upper end of the spiral spring is mounted the saucer-shaped stopper F, resting upon the upper end of the cylinder and having an air-tight lit thereon. This stopper will be springpressed against the cylinder and will prevent the passage through the cylinder downwardly into the bottle of any liquid` but will permit the passage out of the bottle of any liquid that may be contained therein. Disposed above the stopper and surrounding the upper portion of the cylinder is the housing G, arranged, as shown in Fig. l, to prevent access from the outside to the stopper F, so as to prevent the stopper F from being raised fromits seat on the cylinder, and thereby prevent anybody from elevating it or in any manner tam-v pering with it in order to pass any liquid into the interior of the bottle. On top of the housingI have provided a protecting cap or shield H, which completely covers the opening G in the top of the housing.

My improved cork is prepared for use as follows: The cork I has a central bore therethrough, into which the cylinder C is passed, as shown in Fig. l, the Vlower end of which projects slightly beyond the lower end of the cork, and when in this position on thelower end of the cylinder is formed a flange O by any suitable means which will prevent the cylinder from being removed from the cork. The cork is of a diameter larger than the cavity A in the neck of the bottle. This cavity is provided with two annular grooves A, eX- tending outwardly therefrom, and when the cork is placed into the neck of the bottle after having my sealing attachment secured thereto it is firmly crowded down upon the shoulder A" at thebottom of the cavity A. This will cause the cork to expand and fill up the annular grooves A, the cork having been previously steamed, making it resilient and well adapted to fit into the cavity A', and it will completely fill the annular grooves AH therein.

When a cork properly steamed with my device thereon is placed in a bottle having a neck such as shown and described it will prevent the passage thereinto of any liquid, but will permit any liquid therein to pass out upon inverting the bottle, the usual cork J being removed therefrom.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and' desire to secure by Letters Patent, isH

l. In a non-refillable bottle; a bottle provided with a neck having a cavity therein eter than the bore of the neck, and having annular grooves surrounding said cavity extending outwardly therefrom.

3. The herein-describedmeans to prevent the filling of a bottlehaving an annular recess in the neck thereof after the same is corked, the said recess being provided With annularv grooves therein, the said means consisting' of a cork having a central bore therethrough; a cylinder in said bore having on its upper end a stopper, a spiral sp1-ing in said cylinder secured to the lower end thereof and attached to said stopper and adapted to hold said stopper in spring-pressed engagement With the top of the cylinder.

In Witness that I claim the foregoingI have hereunto subscribed my name this 24th day of June, 1904.

WALTER A. STATTMANN.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. HAZARD, G. E. HARPHAM. 

